Death, dissection, and the destitute
2nd ed. with a new afterword
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Author
Publication
2001 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
113,250 words, Guess
Page Count
453 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6794076M
- ISBN-100226712397
- OCLC Control Number48498887
- OCLC Control Numberdeathdissectiond0000rich
- Library of Congress Control Number00062029
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- Goodreads893642
- LibraryThing170710
Classifications
- DDC393/.0941
- LCCGT3243 .R53 2001
Description
"In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. At a time when such a procedure was regarded with fear and revulsion, the Anatomy Act effectively rendered dissection a punishment for poverty. Providing both historical and contemporary insights, Death, Dissection, and the Destitute opens rich new prospects in history and history of science. The new afterword draws important parallels between social and medical history and contemporary concerns regarding organs for transplant and human tissue for research."--BOOK JACKET.
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